Hebrews 12:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

The general

1 Timothy 3:5

The firstborn

James 1:18

Revelation 14:4

Which

The spirits

Bible References

The general

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, so as to continue to be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

And so He has put all things under His feet and made Him the supreme Head of the church,

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so the married women in everything must be subject to their husbands.

I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.

(if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how can he take care of a church of God?).

The firstborn

In accordance with His will He made us His children by the message of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

These are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women, for they are as pure as virgins, These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been redeemed from among men as the first fruits for God and the Lamb,

Which

However, you must stop rejoicing over the fact that the spirits are submitting to you, but continue to rejoice that your names are enrolled in heaven."

And I solemnly beg you, my true comrade, keep on cooperating with those two women, because they shared with me the struggle in spreading the good news, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

All the inhabitants of the earth whose names, from the foundation of the world, have not been written in the slaughtered Lamb's book of life, will worship him.

If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was hurled into the fiery lake.

The spirits

By faith Abel offered a sacrifice more acceptable to God than Cain did, for by it he was approved as an upright man, since God approved him for the offering he made; and by it he still continues to speak, though dead.

For now we see a dim reflection in a looking-glass. But then we shall see face to face; Now what I know is imperfect, but then I shall know perfectly, as God knows me.

and as we have reflected the likeness of him who was made of dust, let us also reflect the likeness of the Man from heaven.

and yet I am cheerful and confident, but really I prefer to be away from home in the body and to be at home with the Lord.

For to me living means Christ and dying brings gain.

It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.

and you will always be thanking the Father who has qualified you to share the lot of His people in the realm of light.

I answered him, "You know, my lord." He said to me: "These are the people who are coming through the great persecution, who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.